The Literary Character of the Shulchan Aruch: Does Talking During Prayers Render One Ineligible for Warfare?
September 10, 2009 by Jack Bieler
Filed under Halakha, Philosophy, Prayer
The Literary Character of the Shulchan Aruch: Does Talking During Prayers Render One Ineligible for Warfare? by Jack Bieler Literary Flourishes in the Shulchan Aruch In addition to codifying in succinct fashion a broad range of the laws that comprise the traditional corpus of Jewish law, R. Yosef Karo’s Shulchan Aruch can also be viewed as a literary and spiritual work, [...]